workers, participants, customers or even worshippers in these spaces now converted into galleries are simultaneously the spectator and the spectacle. The spectator is essentially looking at themselves or rather their lives through someone else’s eyes, producing art by existing, consuming their own existence, sold to them via “the grift shop gallery”.

Bonnard once coined the term “un arrêt du temps” which translates to - painting is a stilling of time. When he paints, he is trying to relive a moment again and again